When Frederick Douglass was a young boy, he didn't understand what slavery meant. Fred knew he had a master and he knew one day that he would have to serve under him, but he didn't want to leave his home. Frederick had the high spirit that everyone has at five or six. He wanted to play be around friends, and although he could play and stuff he still felt his boundaries. ". . .and though I was quite too young to comprehend and full import of the intelligence, and mostly spent my childhood days in gleesome sports with the other children, a shade of disquiet rested upon me." Frederick had a wonderful childhood, until the day he was moved out of his grandmother's house and had to go to the master's house to live. This filled Fredericks heart with fear and worry that he may never feel and see the love of his grandmother again. As Frederick left his grandmother's house he asked, "where else in the world could such a well be found, and where could such a home be met with?" Frederick's childhood days ended at the moment he walked into his master's house.
As Frederick grew older he was moved to Baltimore to serve under the Auld's. Frederick thought they were nice people; they treated Frederick better than anymore, besides his grandmother, had ever treated him. They fed him and actually treated him like part of the family. The Auld's son Thomas fell in love with Frederick; they were like brother's and they cared about each other tremendiously. Mrs. Hugh Auld, the mistress, taught Frederick how to read to some extent. She taught Frederick the alphabet and that started a great deal of learning for him. "Mr. Auld promptly forbade the continuance of her instruction; telling her, in the first place, that the thing itself is unlawful; that it was also unsafe, and could only lead to mischief." That is exactly where the instructions stopped and the real learning began. Frederick started to go and learn about the bible from one of his friends which started and ended another chapter of his life.
Frederick had to leave Baltimore and go to St. Michael's where his life as a slave just went down hill. His master did not think that he did his work right and that he needed to be sent away to someone that would make him mind and make him listen."My new master was notorious for his fierce and savage disposition, and my only consolation in going to live with him was, the certainty of finding him precisely as represented by common fame." Little to Frederick's concern he was exactly like people had said he was. After only three days of living with him he was getting floggings for no reason. Frederick started to then realize the hardships of slavery, because he had never been treated badly until then. He finally understood having seen people beaten on all the time how it wears them down and how it actually feels. Frederick went through those hardships. This is when he finally realized he needed to get out of the slave life. So, he planned for the escape and the first time he got caught. Everyone after that was suspicious and didn't let him do much. Two and a half years later he planned another escape and succeed to get far away from slavery. "Things went on as usual; but I was passing through the same internal excitement and anxiety which I had experienced two years and a half before." "On Monday, the third day of September, 1838. in accordance with my resolution, I bade farewell to the city of Baltimore, and to that slavery which had been my abhorrence from childhood." Frederick escaped slavery and after some very hard times he was actually declared a freeman by Mr. Hugh Auld. Frederick knew he was going to live his life to the fullest and make his whole time worthwhile and work for everything he had and that is exactly what he did.
"Believing that one of the best means of emancipating the slaves of the south is to improve and elevate the character of the free colored people of the north, I shall labor in the future, as I have labored in the past, to promote the moral, social, religious, and intellectual elevation of the free colored people; necer forgetting my own humble origin, nor refusing, while Heaven lends me ability, to use my voice, my pen, or my vote, to advocate the great and primary work of the universal and unconditoinal emancipation of my entire race."
When Frederick Douglass was a young boy, he didn't understand what slavery meant. Fred knew he had a master and he knew one day that he would have to serve under him, but he didn't want to leave his home. Frederick had the high spirit that everyone has at five or six. He wanted to play be around friends, and although he could play and stuff he still felt his boundaries. ". . .and though I was quite too young to comprehend and full import of the intelligence, and mostly spent my childhood days in gleesome sports with the other children, a shade of disquiet rested upon me." Frederick had a wonderful childhood, until the day he was moved out of his grandmother's house and had to go to the master's house to live. This filled Fredericks heart with fear and worry that he may never feel and see the love of his grandmother again. As Frederick left his grandmother's house he asked, "where else in the world could such a well be found, and where could such a home be met with?" Frederick's childhood days ended at the moment he walked into his master's house.
As Frederick grew older he was moved to Baltimore to serve under the Auld's. Frederick thought they were nice people; they treated Frederick better than anymore, besides his grandmother, had ever treated him. They fed him and actually treated him like part of the family. The Auld's son Thomas fell in love with Frederick; they were like brother's and they cared about each other tremendiously. Mrs. Hugh Auld, the mistress, taught Frederick how to read to some extent. She taught Frederick the alphabet and that started a great deal of learning for him. "Mr. Auld promptly forbade the continuance of her instruction; telling her, in the first place, that the thing itself is unlawful; that it was also unsafe, and could only lead to mischief." That is exactly where the instructions stopped and the real learning began. Frederick started to go and learn about the bible from one of his friends which started and ended another chapter of his life.
Frederick had to leave Baltimore and go to St. Michael's where his life as a slave just went down hill. His master did not think that he did his work right and that he needed to be sent away to someone that would make him mind and make him listen."My new master was notorious for his fierce and savage disposition, and my only consolation in going to live with him was, the certainty of finding him precisely as represented by common fame." Little to Frederick's concern he was exactly like people had said he was. After only three days of living with him he was getting floggings for no reason. Frederick started to then realize the hardships of slavery, because he had never been treated badly until then. He finally understood having seen people beaten on all the time how it wears them down and how it actually feels. Frederick went through those hardships. This is when he finally realized he needed to get out of the slave life. So, he planned for the escape and the first time he got caught. Everyone after that was suspicious and didn't let him do much. Two and a half years later he planned another escape and succeed to get far away from slavery. "Things went on as usual; but I was passing through the same internal excitement and anxiety which I had experienced two years and a half before." "On Monday, the third day of September, 1838. in accordance with my resolution, I bade farewell to the city of Baltimore, and to that slavery which had been my abhorrence from childhood." Frederick escaped slavery and after some very hard times he was actually declared a freeman by Mr. Hugh Auld. Frederick knew he was going to live his life to the fullest and make his whole time worthwhile and work for everything he had and that is exactly what he did.
"Believing that one of the best means of emancipating the slaves of the south is to improve and elevate the character of the free colored people of the north, I shall labor in the future, as I have labored in the past, to promote the moral, social, religious, and intellectual elevation of the free colored people; necer forgetting my own humble origin, nor refusing, while Heaven lends me ability, to use my voice, my pen, or my vote, to advocate the great and primary work of the universal and unconditoinal emancipation of my entire race."